Mumbai: KEM Hospital has started its largest and most expensive BMC-funded trials with 7,000 women aimed as participants, which will potentially change how breast cancer is diagnosed at the hospital. The trial, which will last for 12 to 28 months, involves a small, portable device with a high-resolution thermal sensor powered by artificial intelligence. The…
Mumbai: Over 2,000 paan shops close to schools and colleges suspected of selling drugs were raided in the city and their encroachments removed, said CM Devendra Fadnavis in the legislative council on Thursday. He mentioned that such shops are being closely monitored.The issue of narcotic drugs such as mephedrone and brown sugar being sold at…
Mira-Bhayander: A shopkeeper’s assault by MNS workers for not speaking Marathi led to a ‘bandh’ by Mira Road-Bhayander traders who demanded the arrest of the assaulters. An FIR was filed, but no arrests have been made as charges invoked are minor. This has prompted calls for invoking the IT Act as the assaulters made a…
Mumbai: The state government plans to implement a new SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) to streamline treatment priority in charitable hospitals, prompted by the growing numbers of poor and underprivileged residents. This decision follows concerns raised during a calling attention motion in the state legislative assembly on Thursday, highlighting the failure to provide 20% reserved beds…
Mumbai: An alert police constable saved a 53-year-old woman who jumped into the sea at Bandra Bandstand on Wednesday evening. The woman, a resident of Bandra (W), has been undergoing treatment for psychological issues for the last 20 years, police informed on Thursday.“Constable Sainath Devde was posted as a watcher at Galaxy Apartment, where actor…
Mumbai: A 14-year-old boy jumped to his death from a Kandivli highrise on Wednesday, reportedly angry after being asked by his mother to go for tuitions. Police said the family lives on the 51st floor of the highrise but it’s not clear where he jumped from. An accidental death case has been recorded.The boy was…
Palghar: Local residents demanded higher compensation for their land to be acquired for the proposed Vadhvan Port in Palghar district and also sought priority in jobs at the mega project.They put up the demands during a meeting held at the Sub-Divisional Officer’s office at Dahanu on Wednesday, days after protests by a section of villagers…
Mumbai: Maharashtra will soon frame rules to make testing of thalassaemia mandatory for people before marriage as part of a broader initiative to eradicate the disease, minister Meghana Bordikar said in the assembly on Thursday.Responding to a question raised by MLA Vikas Thakre during the Question Hour, the minister of state for public health said…
Mumbai: BMC has invited expressions of interest (EOI) from reputed public companies, charitable trusts or societies for the development and long-term maintenance of a textile museum at the site of the India United Mill No. 2 & 3 in Byculla (East).The proposed museum is to be established on a 44,000 sq m plot — C.S….
Mumbai: Congress MLA Nana Patole on Thursday alleged irregularities in the BMC’s project for legacy waste remediation at the Deonar dumping ground, with the estimated contract valued at over Rs 2,368 crore. Patole said that two companies were kept out of the tendering process to favour a specific bidder. He said that while hundreds of…
